Taking Brightline High Speed Train From Miami To Orlando - Slight Change Of Plans But Going Home
Brightline Train Miami To Orlando
Transcript
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of is Tuesday February 18th
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2025 from a hotel in Kito Ecuador where
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my mom and myself are about to check
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out and head about a mile that way via
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the shuttle here at this
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hotel to get a flight to go to Miami and
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then from Miami get off the
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plane get over to the bright Line
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station and take taking a train from
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Miami to MCO Orlando International
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Airport never taken the bright line
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before it's also going to be interesting
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to see if this flight takes off in time
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supposed to leave at 9:11
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a.m. 700 a.m. right now and there's a
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lot of
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fall checking out of the
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room pretty nice hotel you're really
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close to the airport really close I mean
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just right next door not at the airport
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but pretty dang close Okay of real roses
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not fake roses like a lot of places
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would have cuz there's so many flowers
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here real roses here by the elevator
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evident the shuttle shows up every half
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hour so on the hour and on the half hour
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shouldn't have to wait too long to get
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over there also flying LM Airlines ladam
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or
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ladom cannot check in on the app it's I
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booked it through Delta which is in
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correlation with latam a lot of but I
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have to get to the airport before we
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find out what seats we got welcome
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everyone ad of the woo here got a teeny
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tiny complimentary coffee from the lobby
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probably we'll have more than one
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caffeinated beverage today as I go from
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here Ecuador to Miami back to the US
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they get on a train go to MCO bright
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line I'm excited about that join me
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shall you all right shuttle arrived
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drove us drove us about the mile or so
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could takeen a taxi too but
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complimentary hotel shuttle so I'm going
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to say goodbye to this alien that I've
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seen a few
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times here at the keto
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airport now we're going to go check in
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check our
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bags get the show on the road it's
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raining here all right all checked in
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got our bags checked going to be going
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to our destination in Miami which we
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have to take that off and then take the
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bright line my mom and I are the seats
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we have are 17 row
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17 B and D C there's going to be a
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person in between us so they wouldn't
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let us connect seats and it's a full
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flight so we're going to have to ask the
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person maybe if we get sit next to each
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other but we're in the same row but not
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next to each other all right going
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through the checkpoints got to remove
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belts cell phones if you're wearing one
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boot take the one boot off and jackets
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off everything else in the
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tray and laptop out of the perfect
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timeing by the time we scanned our
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passports got them stamped all that was
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time to board no time to sit just walked
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right up and now we're
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so our seats are
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17d so I'm here right here on this
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corner and Mom want to sit down until
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everybody gets in here 17b which is on
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the other side of the aisle in the
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middle so we can't we're not sitting I
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thought we were going to be in the
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thought we were going to be on the same
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side
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but sit Stranges they do give you these
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little pillows and blankets but kind of
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wedged in back here I'm a tall guy so my
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knees are against the back of the seat
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this is a a320-200
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big
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knees smoosh down in there
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I would imagine I'm not this these are
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going to be filled up if they're not
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I'll move over
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but Plan full plane
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all right no window views
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today got an A
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Seat take it off
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932 well lift off
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all right I got to say this is the first
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time I've ever had like a main cabin
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seat in the back without a lot of room
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where they actually give you more than
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just like pretzels look at this little
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sandwich got some OJ obviously but yeah
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they give you a little fruit pack
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here I guess a ham sandwich back in the
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back of the plane that's
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surprising not complaining though pretty
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nice
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we landed all right now in Miami just
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got off the plane got to go through
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passport
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control and then get our luggage and
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then get over to the bright
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line all right went through the passport
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control showed that everything's good
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now going over to
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number five over here to get our baggage
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baggage control five baggage claim five
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ah yes back in the
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USA you know I could actually get a
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coffee here that's bigger than 4
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o I might have to celebrate and do that
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at some
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point all right we got to find a got to
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find a way to get over to the right Line
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station right line shuttle take elevator
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to level
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two all right let's do it
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like this little mural right here Miami
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International Airport and lots of
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flamingos there we go I don't know if
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I've ever been in the Miami Airport
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before to be completely I mean I've been
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in Miami but it's been a while but I
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don't know if I've ever flown into the
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Miami Airport definitely a little warmer
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here here's the bright line
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shuttle well that's this is where the
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bright line shuttle
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meets Wonder say it feels a little more
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humid I mean it was humid in Ecuador
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but feels a tiny bit warmer
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here all the flags over
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there feels a little warmer here doesn't
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it that got a plane taking off up
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there and
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evidently bright line shuttle is like a
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big van almost like the one we took from
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our hotel to the place this is it right
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there pulling in black and yellow right
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line and blue that's it right there
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wedged in between another shuttle and
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this extended
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limo think we got time our train takes
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off at 3:30 it's 217 right now
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we got this think it's like a 15-minute
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ride depends on how traffic is few
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miles Miami airport shuttle train to
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plane all right have arrived at the
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bright
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line all right when you get here there's
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a there's a regular place where you can
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go up and buy food and drinks and snacks
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and things but there's also if you have
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the premier ticket which we ended up
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getting I think it was like an extra 30
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$30 per person but it not only includes
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bigger seats like almost like a premier
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seats with plenty more leg room and
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whatnot but also has a Premier Lounge
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and different food and things so we went
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with
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that I figured it'd be worth it to have
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quite a bit of Elbow
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Room I think we're about ready to take
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off now look how much room we got here
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bright red thank you foring ride with us
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today for your convenience guests and
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smart can now order food and beverages
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directly to your seat by scanning the QR
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code located at your seat back our team
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will promptly deliver your order so you
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can sit back relax and enjoy the ride
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look at
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this they told us where to go 5 minutes
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before they said your train is boarding
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and you can bring your luggage on with
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you there's a rack just a few feet from
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our seat we put our luggage super super
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easy
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yeah these are the
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seats check those out little plugins
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down
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here all right leaving Miami Orlando
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bound I think there's a couple stops on
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the way I think it's like total of three
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and a half half
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hours smooth
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sailing I'm cruising along 10 minutes to
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four right
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now we're not going to order any food
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cuz I a little snack in the lounge but
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this is the
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yeah I'm not either had a little couple
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little snacks in the lounge but they do
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have premium menu so for some reason you
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got here late you couldn't utilize the
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lounge they have all these different
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items that you can
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get even got Cur rated snacks you can
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elevate your trip for a price if you
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want to get some adult beverages
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oh and then we got oh you can even buy
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playing cards bluetooth
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earbuds all kind of stuff you some Advil
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liquid gel and tiol ex stct you have a
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little
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headache I don't know how fast this goes
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it's moving pretty quick I don't think
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it's a bullet train but definitely
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moving hold up the maps here to see
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exactly where I am so I started in Miami
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now we're just a little bit Eastward of
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Hollywood Florida we're going to be
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stopping I think in Fort laudo for a
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couple moments to let other people on
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and off and then up to bokeh and
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probably around that point maybe after
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West
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Palm we'll cut over Westward to start
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heading to
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Orlando that's what I'm guessing anyway
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well no Maybe not maybe maybe actually
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go through melbert I don't know I'm
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curious to see where it leads all right
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I ordered a coffee
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actually hying h beverage on the
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train yeah we've been making a few stops
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this prob probably stop five or six
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times for like 2 or 3 minutes each
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time headed northward out of West Palm
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now for
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so we' pretty much been going straight
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up up the coast Northbound like hugging
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the hugging the coast more or less till
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you get to North Meritt Island is
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finally the blue dot is the train
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starting to Veer a little bit Westward
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to go towards
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Orlando so it looks like that's where it
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makes his turn but really the majority
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of this trip has been straight up the
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coast all the way from down there
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starting down in Miami all the way up
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the coast through waterdale boka West
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Palm Fort St Lucy for Pierce buo Palm
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Bay Melbourne Meritt Island and now
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finally heading
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over towards yeah pretty much hugging
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528 over towards the airport westbound
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on 528 or just parallel to 528
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and we are almost there this blue dot is
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US following 528 this like bluish Hue
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spot amongst the green there south of
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Orlando is MCO Orlando
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International this is going to pull us
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into Terminal C drop us off mom and I
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will be back in
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Florida after just over 2 weeks gone one
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day after 2 weeks I
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think something like
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that find the
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Gap success very quiet very smooth and
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on time actually it was about 5 minutes
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early it's about 7:15 right now
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my first bright line
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experience pretty nice pretty smooth and
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the only reason there is no there was no
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direct flights from keto Ecuador to MCO
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Orlando and the only other flight would
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have been to go to Atlanta on a
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connecting flight and all those flights
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didn't leave till 11:50 p.m. tonight all
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right we've arrived the P arrived at the
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passenger pickup area my dad is going to
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be picking us up here taking myself home
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and then dropping me off and then him
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and my mom will return to their place
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we're back and that's going to do it for
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today from Orlando
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Florida shortly I'll be back in
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celebration I've
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returned to the US OFA from South
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America Ecuador where I spent two weeks
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just just a little over two
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weeks in
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Ecuador saw a lot did a lot had a lot of
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family
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time I went a place I had never been saw
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things I had never
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seen but I'm back for a short while not
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too long but I'm back I can't sit still
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so no telling how long I'll be here but
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I'm here now and I'll probably be
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here for a few days or more maybe longer
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maybe less who knows I'll see you in the
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next video thanks for watching the brid
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line was good I would do it again in
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fact so many international flights
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either go out of Atlanta New York City
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or Miami so a lot of times when you fly
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somewhere really far International they
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don't have direct flights out of MCO
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Orlando so you have to fly to Miami
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first or fly to Atlanta first so who
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knows maybe one day if I go to another
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International place that has to fly out
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of Miami instead of going up to Atlanta
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and then taking the connecting flight
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going somewhere maybe I'll take the
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bright line down stay the night down
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there do a Miami thing and then fly
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direct to wherever country I want to go
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to who knows could open up a whole
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plethora of
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opportunities in the international
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travel either that it I'll just never
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take the bright land again I mean who
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knows I'll see you in the next
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video just kind of thinking out loud
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I'll see you the next video the
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Vlog is over also pretty cool looking
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building this is terminal C A and B are
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the main ones C was built a couple years
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ago and I've only used it a few
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times it's also interesting that the
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bright line connects here but in Miami
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you have to go about 5 miles into the
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city away from the airport but here it
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drops off at the airport side note this
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is bonus footage all right that's it